Who am I? Nostradamus? I said what I said. Saddam wanted this and so did Gaddafi. There may be other reasons, but I only noticed similarities. What concerns the timeline you've posted - it's hard to say exactly what Saddam had actually undertaken during this period. Surely, you're not going to tell me about his threat to the civilized world with WMD?I must research however if the leaders of Tunis and Egypt in the North and Bahrain and Syria in the South supported Gaddafi's ideas.